Baille Lemaire

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Constructeurs Baille-Lemaire
legal form
founding 1892
resolution 1935
Seat Crosne
Branch Optics , automobiles

Factory around 1906

Constructeurs Baille-Lemaire was a French company.

Company history

Jean-Baptiste Baille-Lemaire founded the company in Crosne in 1892 . He made binoculars , lenses and other things of optics . In 1898 the production of automobiles began . Automobile production ended in 1902. In 1935 the company was dissolved.

vehicles

The first model was equipped with a two-cylinder engine with 8 hp . As a special feature, the cylinders were air-cooled and the cylinder heads were water-cooled . The engine power was transmitted to the rear axle via belts. Some of these vehicles took part in the Paris – Amsterdam – Paris car race in 1898 . The following models were designed similarly.

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
  • George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 1: A – F. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 . (English)
  • George Nick Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours. Courtille, Paris 1975. (French)

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
  2. a b c d e Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.
  3. ^ Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours.